Upcoming Events Jun 19 University Holiday: Juneteenth On June 19, 2025 Jul 04 University Holiday: Independence Day On July 4, 2025 Aug 12 Course Registration Opens for fall 2025 for Incoming Students On August 12, 2025 Aug 14 Fall 2025 Course Registration for minimum course load due for incoming students On August 14, 2025 Aug 18 Fall Online Check-in Opens. On August 18, 2025 Aug 25 Fall Add/Drop Opens On August 25, 2025 Aug 27 Make Up Exams for Spring 2025 held. (8/27 & 8/28) On August 27, 2025 Past Events May 29 Commencement On May 29, 2025 May 26 University Holiday: Memorial Day. On May 26, 2025 May 26 All Grades Released. On May 26, 2025 May 18 “Peace:” 29th Annual Harvard India Poetry Meeting On May 18, 2025 at 2:00 pm May 10 Mira Nair | Woman of the Year On May 10, 2025 at 5:00 pm May 08 Spring Final Examination Period. (5/8/2025 – 5/17/2025) On May 8, 2025 May 05 An Extraordinary Journey The First Chinese Art Student To Visit Twentieth-century India On May 5, 2025 at 5:00 pm May 01 Reaching the Uncanny Antipodes: Southeast Asian Translationscapes and the Foreclosure of the West in Siam’s Early Translations of Orientalist Literature On May 1, 2025 at 12:00 pm May 01 Reading Period. (5/1/2025 – 5/7/2025) On May 1, 2025 Apr 30 A Utopian Farming Community in Siam (1895-96): Miyazaki Tōten’s Revolutionary Imaginary On April 30, 2025 at 12:30 pm Apr 30 Brave Conversations – GSAS Grad Student Appreciation Event On April 30, 2025 at 12:00 pm Apr 30 Last Day of Spring Full Term classes. On April 30, 2025 Apr 29 From the Palace to the Botanical Gardens: Food, Caffeine, and Cultivation in India and Indonesia On April 29, 2025 at 5:00 pm Apr 28 Visitas: SAS Open House On April 28, 2025 at 12:00 pm Apr 25 The Real in the Ruins: ʿAttar’s Poetry as a Response to Islamic Intellectual History On April 25, 2025 at 5:00 pm Apr 24 “Reassessing Qarakhanid Funerary Architecture: Portals, Patronage, and Shaping Royal Identity in Pre-Mongol Central Asia” –AKPIA Lecture Series On April 24, 2025 at 6:00 pm Apr 24 “The Nature of Commodity Frontiers” April 24-26 On April 24, 2025 Apr 24 Anthropology & History – 2-day Symposium On April 24, 2025 Apr 23 “The Sūtra on Gravity of Retribution for Transgression of Precepts: A Short Text on the Hellish Torment Awating Monks and Nuns Who Break the Rules” — HBSF On April 23, 2025 at 5:30 pm Apr 22 Illuminate: Contextualizing Asian American Women’s Stories through the Archives Opening Event On April 22, 2025 at 4:00 pm Apr 21 Where is my Home? Subordinate Storylines in Narratives of Water- and Forest- Themed Filipino/Thai/Bahasa Storybooks and Discourses of Exile On April 21, 2025 at 5:00 pm Apr 18 Mittal Institute Annual Symposium On April 18, 2025 Apr 17 Harish C. Mahindra Evening: The Mittal Institute’s 15-Year Journey to Increase Harvard’s Presence in Asia On April 17, 2025 at 6:30 pm Apr 16 SAS Graduate Student Colloquium – Pariroo Rattan On April 16, 2025 at 5:30 pm Apr 16 Indigenous Narrative: The Dynamic Biographies of gShen-rab Mi-bo, Founder of the Tibetan Bon Religion On April 16, 2025 at 11:30 am Apr 16 Boundless Weaving: Buddhist Visual Culture in a Tibetophone World, 9th to 13th Century – Dissertation Defense On April 16, 2025 at 11:00 am Apr 16 Fall 2025: Course Registration Deadline for Returning Students. On April 16, 2025 Apr 14 Gender, Marginalization & Media Advocacy for Change On April 14, 2025 at 6:00 pm Apr 14 Public Lecture by Distinguished Artist Fellow Naiza Khan On April 14, 2025 at 5:30 pm Apr 12 Bachata in Bloom: GSAS Spring Dance Party On April 12, 2025 at 7:00 pm Event Lecture Series Harvard Oriental Lecture Series Harvard Oriental Lecture Serie Sangam Tamil Lecture Series
